The treatment – which costs from £190 –
involves a probe that emits radio-frequency energy, a type of heat,
while suctioning fatty areas and tightening skin.

‘My tummy and love
handles are my stubborn areas and this treatment really shifted the
fat,’ says Noelle, partner of tycoon Scot Young – once imprisoned for
not playing ball with judges during his toxic divorce, with his former
wife Michelle.

‘Even my boyfriend said my stomach looked much flatter.’

While most people claimed they
would seek a diagnosis for themselves or a loved one, 12 per cent said
they would prefer to be left in the dark if they were suffering from an
incurable neurological disease.

‘I’d
waste my life worrying about something out of my control,’ said one in
the survey by health screening experts GE Healthcare.

Some
forms of dementia can be detected before symptoms begin with gene
tests, but the majority will be picked up once there are obvious signs
and the disease has progressed.

There
is a push for earlier screening, and many trials have shown if caught
early the progression of many forms of the disease can be delayed.

Marc
Wortmann, executive director of Alzheimer’s Disease International,
said: ‘People fear becoming a burden on their friends and families and
do not desire a diagnosis of dementia. However, without proper diagnosis
they risk missing out on appropriate treatment.

heir
exposure to daylight, activity and sleep was measured with a device
worn on the wrist, while quality of life was self-reported.

The
employees with windows received 173 per cent more white light exposure
during the working day and slept on average 46 minutes more than their
windowless colleagues.

The
research findings at America’s Northwestern Medicine and the
University of Illinois, Urbana, were published in the Journal Of
Clinical Sleep Medicine.

No one likes being laughed at. But if you are one of the 13 per cent of the population who actually have a phobia about it, your heart could suffer.

Gelotophobia,
the fear of being laughed at or a misperception of other people’s
expressions of cheerfulness, is linked to slowing of the heartbeat,
anxiety, loneliness and depression, says research.

As social animals, we seek acceptance and avoid rejection, but we differ in how we react to cues of social rejection.

In
a study, people with and without gelotophobia performed mental
arithmetic for five minutes. While working they were interrupted by two
insulting statements via an intercom. Later, laughter was delivered
through the intercom, as if by accident.

The heart rates of the phobics slowed for several seconds, said researchers from the University of Graz in Austria.